A diocese on Indonesia’s Christian-majority Flores Island has been accused of promoting violence after a company it manages demolished dozens of homes in a bid to evict some 200 indigenous people from ...

Research shows that globally, Indigenous peoples are the most effective stewards of their forests and the massive stores of carbon and biodiversity within. Yet in Indonesia, which harbors the majority ...

Korchnoi Pasaribu, a geologist and a hobby photographer who hails from the Indonesian island of Java himself, has managed to capture the hypnotic eyes of these tribespeople and share them on his ...

UN experts expressed concern on Tuesday about Indonesia’s continued disregard for the fundamental rights of its Indigenous peoples. They urged the Indonesian government to recognize Indigenous peoples ...

Eight Indigenous people, including two women from the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, have been sentenced to 10 months in prison by a court for vandalizing the signboard of the Church-owned ...

There are approximately 370 million indigenous peoples comprising around 5,000 tribes in more than ninety countries around the world. While indigenous peoples make up only 6 percent of the world’s ...

Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s president for the past decade, failed to make good on his promises to recognize and protect Indigenous people’s rights, Indigenous rights groups says. With Jokowi, as he’s ...

JAKARTA — United Nations rights officials have raised the alarm over alleged human rights abuses and environmental destruction linked to a massive plantation project in the Indonesian district of ...